Joseph McNamara, PhD

Research Area: Treatment of Anxiety Disorders, Sleep, Executive functioning, & treatment adherence. Specifically we are interested in the interaction of 4 areas listed.

Study topics include: We are doing a study looking at treatment outcomes with both children and adults who have OCD. During the course of this study, we are collecting information on sleep and treatment adherence. We are also conducting studies on pediatric sleep and OCD symptom severity, pilot testing a live coding system for exposure therapy, and executive functioning.

Interested students should: send a letter describing their interests, experience, and educational goals to Dr. Setlow at setlow@ufl.edu

Kevin K.W. Wang, PhD

Executive Director, Center for Neuroprotepmics and Biomarker Research and Chief, Translational Research, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Physiological Science

Research Area: We are actively working in the areas of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, neurodegeneration (Alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Parkinson’s disease) and substance abuse induced brain alterations.

Study topics include: We use a multidisciplinary approach that combine in vitro neurochemical, biochemical and immuno-assays, proteomic analysis, cell culture model, animal models and translational research to clinical studies. We also use a holistic Systemic Biology approach to study the underlying mechanisms of various brain disorders, to identify disease-tracking biomarkers/molecular diagnostics and to test and develop novel pharmaceutical- or cell-based therapies to treat such diseases. http://mbi-cnbr.sites.medinfo.ufl.edu/